Ability Quote by Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

— Todor Zhivkov

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and…

— Michael Wolff

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

— Michael Ignatieff

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky…

— Norman Mailer

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

— Mark Twain

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

— Otto von Bismarck

“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode…

— Cal Newport

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

— Anonymous

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

— Robert Draper

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism…

— Andrew Marr